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  • PENGUIN ENGLISH LIBRARY PRIDE AND PREJUDICE
    PENGUIN ENGLISH LIBRARY PRIDE AND PREJUDICE
    JANE AUSTEN
    The Penguin English Library Edition of Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen'No sooner had he made it clear to himself and his friends that she had hardly a good feature in her face, than he began to find it was rendered uncommonly intelligent by the beautiful expression of her dark eyes ...'When Elizabeth Bennet first meets eligible bachelor Fitzwilliam Darcy, she thinks him arro...
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  • MESSI RULES
    MESSI RULES
    SIMON MUGFORD
    Is Lionel Messi your number 1 footballer? In this NEWLY REVISED edition, we bring you fully up to date with Messi's story so far and feature his stats and achievements since he left Barcelona for PSG after 18 glorious seasons, including his epic Copa América win with Argentina in 2021. Did you know that the living legend Leo has played more than 950 matches, scored more than 7...
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  • THE COURAGE TO BE DISLIKED
    THE COURAGE TO BE DISLIKED
    ICHIRO KISHIMI / FUMITAKE KOGA
    The Japanese phenomenon that teaches us the simple yet profound lessons required to liberate our real selves and find lasting happiness. The Courage to be Disliked shows you how to unlock the power within yourself to become your best and truest self, change your future and find lasting happiness. Using the theories of Alfred Adler, one of the three giants of 19th century psycho...
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  • LION OF MACEDON
    LION OF MACEDON
    DAVID GEMMELL
    His name is Parmenion. Despised by Spartans and Macedonians alike, he must fight for his place in the world. Yet he will survive. Dark forces have marked out his destiny as the most fearsome warlord Greece has ever known. For he will become the Lion of Macedon - and will reshape the glory of Greece before he faces the wrath of hell ... ...
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  • DUNE MESSIAH
    DUNE MESSIAH
    FRANK HERBERT
    The extraordinary sequel to Dune, the greatest science fiction novel of all time. Twelve years after his victory over House Harkonnen, Paul Atreides rules as emperor from the desert planet Arrakis - but his victory has had profound consequences. War has been brought to the entire known universe, and billions have already perished. Despite having become the most powerful empero...
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  • OUTLANDER
    OUTLANDER
    DIANA GABALDON
    #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • The first book in Diana Gabaldon's acclaimed Outlander saga, the basis for the Starz original series. One of the top ten best-loved novels in America, as seen on PBS's The Great American Read! Unrivaled storytelling. Unforgettable characters. Rich historical detail. These are the hallmarks of Diana Gabaldon's work. Her New York Times bestselling...
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  • HINDUISM
    HINDUISM
    KIM KNOTT
    Hinduism is practised by nearly eighty per cent of India's population, and by some seventy million people outside India. In this Very Short Introduction, Kim Knott offers a succinct and authoritative overview of this major religion, and analyses the challenges facing it in the twenty-first century. She discusses key preoccupations of Hinduism such as the centrality of the Veda ...
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  • THE NAPOLEON OF NOTTING HILL
    THE NAPOLEON OF NOTTING HILL
    G. K CHESTERTON
    London, 1984. England has given up on democracy and selects its rulers by lottery. This time it is the turn of clerk Auberon Quin, a prankster who decrees that each borough of London become an independent mediaeval state, complete with costumes and coats of arms. The citizens bear his joke with varying levels of patience - until Adam Wayne, the intractable Provost of Notting Hi...
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  • SMALL MERCIES
    SMALL MERCIES
    DENNIS LEHANE
    In the summer of 1974 a heatwave blankets Boston and Mary Pat Fennessey is trying to stay one step ahead of the bill collectors. Mary Pat has lived her entire life in the housing projects of 'Southie', the Irish American enclave that stubbornly adheres to old tradition and stands proudly apart. One night Mary Pat's teenage daughter Jules stays out late and doesn't come home. Th...
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  • VAGABOND
    VAGABOND
    MARK EVELEIGH
    "Vagabond is classic travel writing at its finest... Mark takes you on a journey through the heart of Spain which is rich in detail and bursting with life." - Sir Ranulph Fiennes This incredible true story of one man's 1,225-km hike across the Iberian Peninsula is a celebration of rural Spain along the road less travelled Inspired by a nomadic "vagabundo" he met decades ago, ...
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  • MATERIAL WEALTH
    MATERIAL WEALTH
    PAT THOMAS
    A prolific poet, raconteur, activist, and thinker, Allen Ginsberg was also a prolific collector, meticulously saving letters, postcards, draft notes and manuscripts, photographs and snapshots, appearance bills and rally broadsheets, not only featuring him personally, but also his fellow poets, singers, lovers, writers, journey companions, friends, and agitators. Gathered here p...
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  • WENT TO LONDON, TOOK THE DOG: A DIARY
    WENT TO LONDON, TOOK THE DOG: A DIARY
    NINA STIBBE
    'Painfully funny, but also deeply moving' - Meg Mason 'Vulnerable, sharp, funny, wise' - Bonnie Garmus 'A unique comic voice, endlessly funny' - David Nicholls Twenty years after leaving London, Nina Stibbe is back in town with her dog, Peggy. Together they take up lodging in the house of writer Deborah (Debby) Moggach in Camden for 'a year-long sabbatical'. It's a break fro...
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  • REAL LIVES OF MARRIED PEOPLE
    REAL LIVES OF MARRIED PEOPLE
    DEIRDRE MENDOZA
    In this evocative debut collection by arts and culture journalist, Deirdre Mendoza, Los Angeles provides the untamed landscape for spare, intimate stories of women discovering their position and power while falling in and out of love. A young writer learns more than craft when she works for an aging screenwriter; a brilliant architect with a special child loses faith in what sh...
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  • THE GREEN KINGDOM
    THE GREEN KINGDOM
    CORNELIA FUNKE / TAMMI HARTUNG
    Caspia's summer is transformed when she discovers a bundle of letters containing ten botanical riddles in this enchanting adventure. Twelve-year-old Caspia hates big cities, especially one as busy as New York. So she isn't thrilled by the news that her parents are taking her to stay in Brooklyn. But everything changes when Caspia discovers a bundle of letters, hidden in an old ...
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  • THE MARTIAN CHRONICLES
    THE MARTIAN CHRONICLES
    RAY BRADBURY
    « Written in the age of the atom, When America and Europe optimistically viewed the discovery of life on Mars as inevitable, Bradbury's closely interwoven tales of a brutal, stark and unforgiving Martian landscape are both astonishing and insightful. "The Martian chronicles" tells the story of humanity's repeated attempts to colonize the red planet. The first men were few. Most...
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  • LEAVES OF GRASS
    LEAVES OF GRASS
    WALT WHITMAN
    HarperCollins is proud to present its incredible range of best-loved, essential classics. I believe a leaf of grass is no less than the journey work of the stars... First published in 1855, and edited, revised and expanded over thirty years, 'Leaves of Grass' has become one of the most celebrated poetry collections in the history of American literature. A master of free verse...
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  • DEADLY ANIMALS
    DEADLY ANIMALS
    MARIE TIERNEY
    Thirteen-year-old Ava Bonney is unlike other children. Exceptionally bright, she has an obsessive interest in the rate at which dead animals decompose. The motorway she lives by regularly offers up roadkill, and in the dead of night Ava likes nothing better than to pull her latest discovery into her roadside den so she can study it. But one day when she arrives she stumbles acr...
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  • 3001
    3001
    ARTHUR CHARLES CLARKE
    The world in the year 3001 seen through the eyes of an astronaut, revived after a thousand-year sleep. The earth is encircled by space cities, accessed by elevators and education is a breeze, computers enabling the brain to absorb complicated information in milliseconds. By the author of 2001: A Space Odyssey. ...
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  • DON'T LET THE FOREST IN
    DON'T LET THE FOREST IN
    C. G. DREWS
    When Andrew returns to boarding school, he can't wait to find refuge in the twisted fairy tales he writes for Thomas - the boy with hair like autumn leaves. But Thomas' parents have vanished, and he has blood on his sleeve. Stranger still, Thomas won't talk to Andrew, even though he's always loved sketching the monstrous creatures from Andrew's stories. Desperate to uncover the...
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  • THE ADVENTURES OF AMINA AL-SIRAFI
    THE ADVENTURES OF AMINA AL-SIRAFI
    SHANNON CHAKRABORTY
    Shannon Chakraborty, the bestselling author of The City of Brass, launches a new trilogy of magic and mayhem with this tale of pirates and sorcerers, forbidden artefacts and ancient mysteries, and one woman's quest to seize a final chance at glory... A pirate of infamy and one of the most storied and scandalous captains to sail the seven seas. Amina al-Sirafi has survived b...
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  • SURVIVE THE NIGHT
    SURVIVE THE NIGHT
    RILEY SAGER
    ***THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER*** 'One of the most addictive thrillers I've read this year. A compulsive page-turner with high stakes and a heroine you find yourself absolutely rooting for' Gytha Lodge Charlie Jordan is being driven across the country by a serial killer. Maybe. Behind the wheel is Josh Baxter, a stranger Charlie met by the college ride share board, who als...
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  • THE ANNALS OF IMPERIAL ROME
    THE ANNALS OF IMPERIAL ROME
    CORNELIUS TACITUS / PUBLIUS CORNELIUS TACITUS / TACITUS
    His last work, regarded by many as the greatest work of contemporary scholarship, Tacitus' The Annals of Imperial Rome recount with depth and insight the history of the Roman Empire during the first century A.D. This Penguin Classics edition is translated with an introduction by Michael Grant. Tacitus' Annals of Imperial Rome recount the major historical events from the years s...
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  • CHILDREN OF RUIN
    CHILDREN OF RUIN
    ADRIAN TCHAIKOVSKY
    Thousands of years ago, Earth's terraforming program took to the stars. On the world they called Nod, scientists discovered alien life - but it was their mission to overwrite it with the memory of Earth. Then humanity's great empire fell, and the program's decisions were lost to time ...
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  • HUMBLE PIE AND COLD TURKEY
    HUMBLE PIE AND COLD TURKEY
    CAROLINE TAGGART
    'Caroline Taggart has carved out a niche for herself in user-friendly, wittily written factual books.' - Yorkshire Post ______________________ The huge variety of colourful phrases contained in the English language are notoriously varied and, often, notably odd. From blue-blooded (an invention of aristocratic Spaniards) to limelight (a way of lighting Victorian theatres), pass...
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  • THE KIND WORTH KILLING
    THE KIND WORTH KILLING
    PETER SWANSON
    'Hello there.' I looked at the pale, freckled hand on the back of the empty bar seat next to me in the business class lounge of Heathrow airport, then up into the stranger's face. "Do I know you?' Delayed in London, Ted Severson meets a woman at the airport bar. Over cocktails they tell each other rather more than they should, and a dark plan is hatched - but are either of them...
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  • NOTHING HOLDS BACK THE NIGHT
    NOTHING HOLDS BACK THE NIGHT
    DELPHINE DE VIGAN
    In this moving autobiographical novel, the narrator's mother, Lucile, raises her two daughters largely alone. A former child model from a large Bohemian family, Lucile is younger and more glamorous than the other mothers: always in lipstick and stylishly dressed, wayward and wonderful. But as the years pass her occasional sadness gives way to overwhelming despair and delusion. ...
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  • THE PLANETS
    THE PLANETS
    FIONA WATT
    Music from Holst's famous orchestral suite, based on the Solar System. Press the buttons embedded in the pages to hear the special arrangements of Holst's music while exploring the mysterious world of Space. Each planet is beautifully illustrated and there are little bits of information about each one. WARNING! This product contains button or coin cell batteries which are dang...
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  • THE IMPORTANCE OF BEING EARNEST
    THE IMPORTANCE OF BEING EARNEST
    OSCAR. WILDE
    The Importance of Being Earnest is perhaps Oscar Wilde's most popular play - since its? first performance in 1895, it has seen countless productions and three film adaptations, and, in the words of the journalist Mark Lawson, is 'the second most known and quoted play in English after Hamlet'.Brimming with the counter-intuitive wit with which Wilde's name is synonymous, the play...
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  • PALESTINE
    PALESTINE
    JOE SACCO
    In late l991 and early 1992, at the time of the first Intifada, Joe Sacco spent two months with the Palestinians in the West Bank and Gaza Strip, travelling and taking notes. Upon returning to the United States he started writing and drawing Palestine, which combines the techniques of eyewitness reportage with the medium of comic-book storytelling to explore this complex, emoti...
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  • WILD REVERENCE
    WILD REVERENCE
    REBECCA ROSS
    Blockbuster bestseller Rebecca Ross returns to the world of international sensation Divine Rivals with her most epic story yet. Before Iris sat at her typewriter and before Enva sang her song, a young goddess wandered dreams... Born to the firelit domain of the underworld, Matilda is the youngest goddess of her clan, blessed with humble messenger magic. But in a land where gods...
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